Date/time: Thursday, December 17, 2015, 1:30-2:30
Location: Public library
Topic/skill: Listening, articles
Feedback provided to tutee: This session we practiced listening skills. More specifically we practiced recognizing articles. My tutee suggested it as she has some trouble hearing articles. I would read a sentence from a news article or one of Aesop's fables and she would repeat all the articles she heard. At first we were using news articles but there was too many obscure legal/business terms so we switched to fables. (Although the fables had a number of antiquated words and grammar structures) Usually, if my tutee didn't recognize all the articles I just repeated the sentence slower or with more emphasis on the articles.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Luckily, my tutee is very good of being cognizant of which areas she needs more practice with. It is very easy to ignore articles when listening because, often enough, ignoring the articles doesn't seriously interfere with comprehending the speech. Also, the Aesop's fables made for better listening material because there weren't so many confusing proper nouns or background information required to understand the story.
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